White House Muzzles CDC Chief on Climate Health Impacts

onOct 24, 2007 @ 08:56 PDT

The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate.

A draft of the testimony submitted for White House review shows that six pages of details about specific disease and other health problems that might flourish if the Earth warms were not delivered at the hearing.

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Canada Pension Plan is Bankrolling Trump’s Fossil Fuel and AI Agenda

ByTaylor Noakes

onFeb 6, 2026 @ 08:38 PST

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the United States since Trump’s return to office.

MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws

ByJoey Grostern

onFeb 6, 2026 @ 08:30 PST

The European far-right rubbed shoulders with pro-Trump groups in Brussels.

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Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’

ByRei Takver

onFeb 4, 2026 @ 08:26 PST

Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic technology.